Bring It

 I hear people sometimes say that they did not get anything out of an event, a meeting, a worship service, a class.  I have learned that it is not so much what I get from something as to what I bring to something.  When I mediate, it is less to get something from it.  What do I bring to the meditation?  Gratitude?  Openness?  Truly listening?  When life is all about me, I don’t get much.